Evernote Passes Two Million Users

Evernote, the popular memory collection and note-taking service, released its end-of-year user numbers on Wednesday and can now boast that it has “millions of users” — 2,062,015 to be precise.

The announcement on the company blog includes some interesting stats about those users. For example, 74 percent have logged in from the United States and 76.9 percent have accessed the service through at least two different platforms.

Evernote has also seen some major expansion in mobile platforms: 48.7 percent of users, or just over 1 million, have used the service through an iPhone. As far as other mobile devices go, 4.4 percent of users wield a Palm Pre, and 3.9 percent use a Windows Mobile phone. Most surprising to me, only 3.8 percent access the service through a BlackBerry.

As The Times’s Claire Cain Miller reported in November, Evernote recently received $10 million in Series B funding, adding to the $6.5 million in venture capital the company raised earlier.

Phil Libin, Evernote’s chief executive, plans to spend the next year expanding on the newer platforms, and cleaning up its applications. “The main buzzword for next year is polish,” he said in an interview. “The goal is to transform from an early-adopter gadget experience, to something the mainstream can adopt and use for the rest of their lives.” He said members of his 32-person team would be cleaning and enhancing the user interface and design across all platforms.

Mr. Libin said he believed Google‘s Android platform would be big for Evernote. “We just launched a new Android platform about 10 days ago and we have seen major growth,” he said, adding that Android could become just as important as the iPhone for the company.

Evernote’s service continues to grow at a rapid pace. As Erick Schonfeld of TechCrunch notes, it only took Evernote 233 days to reach the two-million-user mark, compared with 488 days to reach its first million users.

Evernote is aiming to be much more than just a repository for grocery lists and such. “We want to be your permanent trusted memory for the rest of your life,” Mr. Libin said. “We know that people will switch to 50 different platforms and phones over the next 50 years, and we’re going to be ready for each device and experience.”

Finally, Mr. Libin said he hoped to team up with more device manufacturers in 2010: “We’ve been approached by a number of different hardware companies and we’re exploring some bundling, and some custom hardware opportunities. I expect that in 2010 we’ll actually launch with our service built into some devices.”